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Evening Standard
|October 13, 2022
TRY as it might, rugby league has never entirely cracked London.
In its Super League pomp, the London Broncos finished runners-up in 1997 and were runners-up in the Challenge Cup two years later.
From then, it was a gradual slide down the top flight to the Championship, bar a one-season return in 2019. Last season ended with the Broncos languishing towards the bottom of rugby league’s second tier, with another capital side, London Skolars, battling a division below.
London has produced one of the England’s finest ever players in Martin Offiah, hailing from Hackney and switching union for the riches of league and an illustrious career which eventually took him to the Broncos.
As the Rugby League World Cup gets under way this weekend, there is a London flavour to England’s 24-man squad with the inclusion of Kai PearcePaul, who came through the ranks at the Broncos before switching to Wigan Warriors.
Former England star Jamie Peacock predicted the 6ft 5in 21-year-old, “could be a World Cup bolter and could do something special if given a shot”.
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